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This collection includes the scrapbook and journal from her bike trip, family photos, and correspondence from various stages of her life. Also included are projector slides, Sierra Club awards, an energy map of Southwest Florida, posters, bumper stickers, Happehatchee flyers, and pictures of her Florida home, which later became a part of Happehatchee. The largest part of this collection is the newspapers documenting her effort to save the planet.

Papers, 1891-1963, includes newspaper clippings, school records, and other materials of Edgar W. Pfeiffer (1926-1943), Gertrude Pfeiffer Jorden (1919-1954), Mary Elizabeth Briggs Council Pfeiffer (1927-1963), and related materials of the Joseph C. Pfeiffer, Sr. family of Pensacola. Includes school records for Sacred Heart Academy and Pensacola High School; dance and social invitations to area clubs, 1926-1930; information on Pfeiffer's Bakery; and papers of related Jorden and Wigand families.

Programs, invitations and other items related to Florida Female College and Florida State College for Women, accumulated by Board of Control member, Philip Keyes Yonge during his tenure on the committee.

This collection includes photographs of the Watrous family, especially Louise and her sisters Mary and Margaret, photos of Claibourne and Louise Phipps, correspondence, copies of news clippings about the Phipps family, a journal (1854), a character book (1913), and an autograph book (1881-1883).

The collection is comprised of three photograph albums, two of which depict northern (non-Florida) scenes, while the last album is labled "Trip Through Florida, 1918." The images depict hunting, camping, fishing and boating, as well as a group of women at school, playing sports and touring.

Lantern slides have their origins in optical projection devices dating to the seventeenth century, yet their widespread use did not begin until after the advent of the wet collodion photographic process by Frederick Scott Archer in the late 1840s. As the nineteenth century progressed, lantern slides with photographic images quickly became popular forms of public and private education and entertainment.

The Rickard Collection contains photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings related to the Rickard family. The correspondence in the collection dates from 1917 to 1919 and is between James S. Rickard and other individulas regarding details asociated with Alkahest Lyceum System classes and courses offered by Mr. Rickard.

Includes materials on the American Civil War, the Bradford-Eppes family including Susan Bradford Eppes and Dr. Edward Bradford, plantation life, land and mortgages, banking, tomb inscriptions from the cemetery in Pine Hill, Florida, sheet music for "Twenty Years Ago" by J. E. McCullune, pamphlets from Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as genealogical data on the Eppes-Bradford family. Photographs include members of the Bradford-Eppes family, John Wilkes Booth, Louise Covington, and a United States Coast Guard Signal Service Station in Palm Beach, Florida. Includes manuscripts for the books Negro of the Old South and Through Some Eventful Years, both by Susan Bradford Eppes.

Collection consists of the financial and legal documents of the Plant Railway System, including bills of sale, claims, vouchers, deeds, mortgages, reports and a range of assorted documents, dating from 1874 to 1922.